Overview
- AMD quietly posted product pages and retailer listings this week for two new Ryzen parts that are now available for purchase.
- The Ryzen 5 7500 is a Zen 4 six‑core, 12‑thread AM5 chip with a 3.7 GHz base, up to 5.0 GHz boost, 32 MB L3 cache, a 65W TDP, and RDNA 2 integrated graphics with two compute units.
- The Ryzen 5 5500F is a Zen 3 Vermeer six‑core, 12‑thread AM4 part with a 3.0 GHz base, up to about 4.0–4.4 GHz boost, 16 MB L3 cache, 65W TDP, and no integrated graphics, reflecting a lower‑binned 5600‑class design.
- U.S. retailer listings put the 5500F at roughly $99 and the 7500 at about $189, with immediate availability reported and buyers weighing the lower CPU cost against AM5’s DDR5 platform expense.
- Reporters and AMD’s product pages frame the moves as quiet SKU expansions meant to give budget builders two paths: cheaper DDR4 upgrades on AM4 or AM5 systems that can work without a discrete GPU thanks to the 7500’s iGPU.